Review: The Conjuring – The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

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Not since the Universal Monsters has there been a horror-movie shared universe as prominent as The Conjuring series, whereas others are subtle regarding their connective tissue, like the ‘Poho County-verse’ created by problematic director, Victor Salva. After five years and four spin-off features, the long-await reunion with the franchise’s central figures, Ed and Lorraine Warren, […]

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Blu-ray Review: Mommie Dearest (1981)

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Arriving in time for its 40th anniversary, Mommie Dearest, the outrageous and controversial biography-drama has debuted on Blu-ray in Australia under Shock Entertainment’s dedicated sub-label, Cinema Cult. Adapted from Christina Crawford’s autobiography of the same name, this well-known and very quotable classic centres around Hollywood icon, Joan Crawford and her struggles with being a mother

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Review: Wrong Turn (2021)

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I still remember quite vividly watching the original Wrong Turn in late 2003, while enjoying that aimless gap between finishing high school and getting a job. What I consider a perfect 30/70 blend of Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes, the off-road horror film spawned five sequels, ending in 2014. Now only seven years later

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DVD Review: Posse (1975)

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Kirk Douglas tried his hand at directing in the mid-1970s, first with the jovial adventure-western Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973). Following its poor reception, he made a second attempt, this time with the grittier revisionist-western, Posse, that’s returned to DVD in Australia through Shock Entertainment under the label’s ‘Hollywood Gold Series’. Howard Nightingale (Kirk

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Review: Happiest Season (2020)

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With my home state of Victoria now COVID-free, at least for the time being, I returned to my local cinema after a five-month break to see the appropriately festive holiday ‘dramedy’, Happiest Season. Intended for digital distribution in the United States, for obvious reasons, the hulu original film has made it to numerous big screens

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Blu-ray Review: Cujo (1983)

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I remember my introduction to rabies came via a re-run episode of Diff’rent Strokes in which Arnold is bitten by a dog that’s suspected of being rabid. While the show highlighted the severity of contracting the disease, it was nothing compared to the nightmare scenario presented in Stephen King’s Cujo, out now on Blu-ray and

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